echodot

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[–] echodot@feddit.uk 1 points 23 hours ago

Damn that's GTA levels of delay.

[–] echodot@feddit.uk 1 points 1 day ago

I sincerely doubt that a collision in low earth orbit is going to result in debris being flicked up into geostationary orbits, the energy differences involved are just monumental.

[–] echodot@feddit.uk 1 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Little bit of a nitpick but Kessler syndrome doesn't care about how many satellites you have, and more about how many dead satellites you have hanging around on random orbits. You could put hundreds of millions of satellites in space as long as you had some sort of decommissioned program. You can always send up rockets if you can just move the satellites out of the way / know where they are.

[–] echodot@feddit.uk 0 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

None of the moons in our solar system have atmospheres. Earths moon is too small to hold on to an atmosphere, and the Galilean moons of Jupiter are too cold for an atmosphere, the gases just freeze.

The best place would be either a space station in low earth orbit or of the L4 or L5 point. The data issue would be the problem though I suppose you could just use the data centres for training but not for active processing but then you would need to build data centres on earth for that.

Given that you're going to build the earth data centres anyway you might as well do all of the processing on earth at the same time.

[–] echodot@feddit.uk 8 points 1 day ago

Yes I'd like to build data centres on Uranus one of the most distant planets in our solar system, and also one without a solid surface but who's counting.

[–] echodot@feddit.uk 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Then they were already dumb.

Short attention span correlates with low intelligence but short attention span doesn't cause low intelligence.

I can't remember the whole thing but there is a sort of pseudo research paper that got published exactly to demonstrate the difference between correlation and causation. In the paper they "found" that yellow teeth cause cancer.

Of course smoking causes yellow teeth, and cancer. The yellow teeth are correlated, but do not cause.

[–] echodot@feddit.uk -3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Intelligence is intelligence you can't reduce it by watching cat videos

[–] echodot@feddit.uk 51 points 1 day ago (9 children)

They did not in fact find that the shorts are making you dumber. They said it affects your attention span.

Ironically I found this out in the first sentence of the article and then stopped reading.

[–] echodot@feddit.uk 13 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (5 children)

The French will try to run you over, and the Italians actively speed up when they see a pedestrian.

In the UK you actually do have to stop and people do even Audi drivers stop sometimes.

[–] echodot@feddit.uk 22 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Yeah obviously this is a film set. That's what PSAs are, little government adverts. They didn't deploy this on the street and they're not suggesting this as a solution to a problem. It's a fun little sort of advertisement that has been created to try and make a point.

It's like the Swedish advert from the other day.

[–] echodot@feddit.uk 13 points 1 day ago

I don't need to believe in Wi-Fi I just need to see that my phone is connected to the internet. The existence of Wi-Fi can be inferred by me having access to YouTube.

[–] echodot@feddit.uk 39 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Most people who use teams do so on work devices, I can't just install Linux on it.

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